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Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900) was the daughter of a wealthy family from County Sligo. Susan’s father’s political loyalties, that Ireland should remain under the British crown, were in direct opposition to herhusband
THE SONS OF MARTHA BY RUDYARD KIPLING The Sons Of Martha. But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest. It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. THE MASK BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Mask. "PUT off that mask of burning gold. With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold. To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMSAUTHORSSHAKESPEARERELIGIOUSREFERENCEQUOTESFORUMS Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. BOULE DE SUIF BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT Boule de Suif. For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings,P. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900) was the daughter of a wealthy family from County Sligo. Susan’s father’s political loyalties, that Ireland should remain under the British crown, were in direct opposition to herhusband
THE SONS OF MARTHA BY RUDYARD KIPLING The Sons Of Martha. But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest. It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. THE MASK BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Mask. "PUT off that mask of burning gold. With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold. To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind,JOHN MILTON
John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, wrote what many consider to be one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667); Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor--one who brings LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. He was born with a club-foot and became extreme sensitivity about his lameness. Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten. After he inherited the title and property of his great-uncle in1798
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY. SEARCH ETEXT, READ ONLINE First published between 1875 and 1877. Translated by Constance Black Garnett (1862-1946) in 1917. Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop SONNETS 1-30 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament. And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content. THE SONS OF MARTHA BY RUDYARD KIPLING The Sons Of Martha. But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest. It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come. TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS BY JULES VERNE This is the story of an Underwater Tour of the World and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land wash up on their ship. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS BY KENNETH GRAHAME: CH. 1: THE THE RIVER BANK. THE Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. SNAKE BY EMILY DICKINSON The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your feet. And opens further on. He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for corn. Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more than once, at morn, Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMSAUTHORSSHAKESPEARERELIGIOUSREFERENCEQUOTESFORUMS Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts AN UPHEAVAL BY ANTON CHEKHOV An Upheaval. MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil. Mihailo, the porter THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings, WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come. THE MASK BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Mask. "PUT off that mask of burning gold. With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold. To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind,"GIRL" BY O HENRY
"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
THE GIOCONDA SMILE BY ALDOUS HUXLEY THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMSAUTHORSSHAKESPEARERELIGIOUSREFERENCEQUOTESFORUMS Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts AN UPHEAVAL BY ANTON CHEKHOV An Upheaval. MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil. Mihailo, the porter THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings, WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come. THE MASK BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Mask. "PUT off that mask of burning gold. With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold. To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind,"GIRL" BY O HENRY
"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
THE GIOCONDA SMILE BY ALDOUS HUXLEY BOULE DE SUIF BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT Boule de Suif. For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come. ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY. SEARCH ETEXT, READ ONLINE Translated by Constance Black Garnett (1862-1946) in 1917. Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affairbetween
THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches andP. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most ANYUTA BY ANTON CHEKHOV Anyuta, with black stripes across her chest, looking as though she had been tattooed, sat thinking, huddled up and shivering with cold. She said very little as a rule; she was always silent, thinking and thinking. . . . In the six or seven years of her wanderings from one furnished room to another, she had known five students like Klotchkov. THE SONS OF MARTHA BY RUDYARD KIPLING The Sons Of Martha. But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart. Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest. It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD BY THOMAS HARDY. SEARCH ETEXT Far From the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. In this case "Madding" means "frenzied". The title may be ironic: the five main characters -- Bathsheba, Troy, Boldwood, Oak, and Fanny Robin -- are all passionatebeings
THE CRYSTAL EGG BY H.G. WELLS The. clergyman went deep into his trouser pocket, examined a handful of money, and showed his teeth in an agreeable smile. Mr. Cave seemed still more. depressed when they came into the shop. The clergyman, without any ceremony, asked the price of the crystal egg. Mr. Cave glanced nervously towards the door leading into the parlour, and. THE LESSER CELANDINE BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Lesser Celandine. There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up fromharm
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Advanced Search. We have two search functions here at The Literature Network. Both functions will only search within one author at a time, to search through all the works of all the authors on this site at once, please see the bottom of this page for the full site search. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY BY ANTON CHEKHOV A Day In The Country. BETWEEN eight and nine o'clock in the morning. A dark leaden-coloured mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings,"GIRL" BY O HENRY
"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
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Advanced Search. We have two search functions here at The Literature Network. Both functions will only search within one author at a time, to search through all the works of all the authors on this site at once, please see the bottom of this page for the full site search. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY BY ANTON CHEKHOV A Day In The Country. BETWEEN eight and nine o'clock in the morning. A dark leaden-coloured mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings,"GIRL" BY O HENRY
"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
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Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD An Outpost of Progress. There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and fat; Carlier, the assistant, was tall, with a large head and a very broad trunk perched upon a long pair of thin legs. The third man on the staff was a Sierra Leone nigger, who maintained that his name was Henry Price. SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL Shooting An Elephant. An essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in 1936.. In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. ARABY BY JAMES JOYCE Araby. NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brownimperturbable faces
THE LESSER CELANDINE BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Lesser Celandine. There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up fromharm
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CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work.ADVANCED SEARCH
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"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
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CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work.ADVANCED SEARCH
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"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Below you will find a list of the authors featured on this site. Each author page includes a biography and a searchable collection of works, many author pages also include other content such as user comments or quizzes. Please choose the author you wish to explore from the list below. Author List. Adams, Henry. Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Adams, Andy. LITERARY PERIODS TIMELINE Literary Periods & History Timeline. Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods & movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history. To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page. AN UPHEAVAL BY ANTON CHEKHOV An Upheaval. MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil. Mihailo, the porter A DAY IN THE COUNTRY BY ANTON CHEKHOV A Day In The Country. BETWEEN eight and nine o'clock in the morning. A dark leaden-coloured mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come.P. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD An Outpost of Progress. There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and fat; Carlier, the assistant, was tall, with a large head and a very broad trunk perched upon a long pair of thin legs. The third man on the staff was a Sierra Leone nigger, who maintained that his name was Henry Price. SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL Shooting An Elephant. An essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in 1936.. In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. ARABY BY JAMES JOYCE Araby. NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brownimperturbable faces
THE LESSER CELANDINE BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Lesser Celandine. There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up fromharm
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CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work.ADVANCED SEARCH
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"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
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CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work.ADVANCED SEARCH
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"girl" IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub- women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-storyoffice building.
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Below you will find a list of the authors featured on this site. Each author page includes a biography and a searchable collection of works, many author pages also include other content such as user comments or quizzes. Please choose the author you wish to explore from the list below. Author List. Adams, Henry. Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Adams, Andy. LITERARY PERIODS TIMELINE Literary Periods & History Timeline. Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods & movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history. To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page. AN UPHEAVAL BY ANTON CHEKHOV An Upheaval. MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil. Mihailo, the porter A DAY IN THE COUNTRY BY ANTON CHEKHOV A Day In The Country. BETWEEN eight and nine o'clock in the morning. A dark leaden-coloured mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam here and there across it. There is a sound of far-away rumbling. A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust. GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come.P. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD An Outpost of Progress. There were two white men in charge of the trading station. Kayerts, the chief, was short and fat; Carlier, the assistant, was tall, with a large head and a very broad trunk perched upon a long pair of thin legs. The third man on the staff was a Sierra Leone nigger, who maintained that his name was Henry Price. SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL Shooting An Elephant. An essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in 1936.. In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. ARABY BY JAMES JOYCE Araby. NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brownimperturbable faces
THE LESSER CELANDINE BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Lesser Celandine. There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up fromharm
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMSAUTHORSSHAKESPEARERELIGIOUSREFERENCEQUOTESFORUMS Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings, MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come.P. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and WASHINGTON SQUARE BY HENRY JAMES: CHAPTER 35 It is a very lonely, restless, joyless life. Before he goes he wishes to speak to you; it is a fixed idea with him--he is always thinking of it. He has something very important to say to you. He believes that you never understood him--that you never judged him rightly, and the belief has always weighed upon him terribly. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMSAUTHORSSHAKESPEARERELIGIOUSREFERENCEQUOTESFORUMS Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts THE FARMER BY AMELIA E. BARR The Farmer. The king may rule o’er land and sea, The lord may live right royally, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o’er ocean wide; But this or that, whate’er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings, MEDITATION XVII BY JOHN DONNE The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come.P. G. WODEHOUSE
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919); Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED BY RUDYARD KIPLING When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted. When Earth's last picture is painted. And the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded. And the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it. Lie down for an aeon or two. 'Till the Master of all good workmen. Shall put us to work anew. THE STORY OF A FARM GIRL BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm. The girl looked at them without thinking, and then she raised her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches and WASHINGTON SQUARE BY HENRY JAMES: CHAPTER 35 It is a very lonely, restless, joyless life. Before he goes he wishes to speak to you; it is a fixed idea with him--he is always thinking of it. He has something very important to say to you. He believes that you never understood him--that you never judged him rightly, and the belief has always weighed upon him terribly. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Below you will find a list of the authors featured on this site. Each author page includes a biography and a searchable collection of works, many author pages also include other content such as user comments or quizzes. Please choose the author you wish to explore from the list below. Author List. Adams, Henry. Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Adams, Andy. CLASSIC LITERATURE SUMMARIES Classic Literature Summaries. Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author. Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work. THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. MODERNISM - LITERATURE PERIODS & MOVEMENTS Modernism. The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. Experimentation and individualism became virtues,where in
THE LITERATURE NETWORK: ONLINE CLASSIC LITERATURE, POEMS Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers.Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts GOOSEBERRIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV Gooseberries. THE whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, when one expects rain and it does not come. AN UPHEAVAL BY ANTON CHEKHOV An Upheaval. MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil. Mihailo, the porterJOHN MILTON
John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, wrote what many consider to be one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667); Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor--one who bringsWILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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